In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper. The… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
